{"active":false,"first_name":"Ivan","last_name":"Mercado","race":"Hispanic","gender":"Male","rank":"SGT","command":{"command":"084 PCT","id":"84pct"},"shield_no":3296,"ended_date":"2018-01-02","taxid":"920604","complaint_ids":[200002335],"command_history":[{"command":"043 PCT","id":"43pct"}],"appt_date":"1997-12-08","lawsuits":[{"name":"Pierce, Lerin vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2016-10-10","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"16CV05703","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Mercado, Ivan","summary":"On September 1, 2014, Plaintiff Pierce was at a Radio Shack attempting to buy an I-Phone case. After a store attendant noticed him waiting for an employee to undo the store fixture, she stated she would help him in a moment. Plaintiff Pierce waited and then noticed an I-Phone case not secured; he picked it up and was reading the back. A store employee then walked up to Plaintiff, addressed him in a rude tone, and accused him of attempting to steal the case. Plaintiff Pierce decided to take his business elsewhere to an AT&T store and was in the store for about twenty minutes. He then went to a Chase Bank to deposit and check, then headed toward the shopping area near Barclays Center. While walking there, a police vehicle pulled ot the side of the street, Officer Tariq got out and walked along side him, then got Plaintiff Pierce’s attention. The officer asked if Plaintiff Pierce had shoplifted in Radio Shack, and Pierce attempted to explain the situation to him. Officer Tariq accused him of cutting the wire to take the phone case. After some arguing, the store employee who rudely addressed Plaintiff Pierce walked up with another officer. Multiple racist comments were made, and the store employee as well as the cops tried to trap Plaintiff Pierce into a fact pattern that was a lie. A third officer arrived and searched his gym bag, finding no tools with which to cut the wire. \n\nFearing for his safety, Plaintiff Pierce chose to run away from the situation. One unmarked and one marked police car chased him; the marked police car intentionally hit him to stop him from running. One of the officers in the cars, Officer Bellardo handcuffed Plaintiff Pierce and punched him in the face multiple times, rubbed his face in the pavement, and banged his head against the street. A different officer, Mercado, kept saying “stop resisting” to Plaintiff Pierce, who could not breathe due to his asthma and blacked out briefly, to justify his hitting Plaintiff Pierce. He was then put in a squad car, in which he received numerous verbal assaults, and taken to the precinct. When asked if he needed to be taken to a hospital; after an attempt to influence him to choose not to, he insisted and was taken in an ambulance to the hospital. He suffered the following injuries which required treatment: flashers/floaters in his eyes, abrasions on his face and forehead, cuts on his inner lower lip, herniated disc, rotator cuff tear, pinched nerve in neck, and carpal tunnel. He was also later diagnosed with PTSD, depression, insomnia, and nightmares and has received prescriptions for his mental health issues. After the trip to the hospital, he was charged with attempted robbery, possession of burglar’s tools, and other false charges. He received an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.392210/gov.uscourts.nyed.392210.21.0_1.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4521401/pierce-v-city-of-new-york/"}],"id":"EEJF","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/EEJF"}